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Jethro holds my mortgage the hull town knows it-and he kin close me out to-morrow if he's a mind to " "See here, Chester Perkins," Lem Hallowell interposed, as he drove up with the stage, "what kind of free principles be you preachin'? You'd ought to know better'n coerce." "What be you a-goin' to do about that Four Corners road?" Chester cried to the stage driver.
Kicking one foot from the wooden stirrup and hitching sideways in the saddle, he prepared for an effort. "Little feller, he is. Ain't as tall as Preachin' Bill even, an' fat! I gonies! he's fat as a possum 'n 'simmon time. HE don't walk, can't; just naturally waddles on them little duck legs o' hisn.
It's very warm to-day; and as I didn't feel like reading or writing, I thought I'd come round." "You're just too kind for anythin'! To come an' pay me a visit when you must be tired out with yesterday's preachin'. An' what a sermon you gave us in the mornin' it was too sweet. I had to wink my eyes pretty hard, an' pull the tears down the back way, or I should have cried right out and Mrs.
"An' the Elder never said much of anything either, though he was always preachin'! Now your husband, Mis' Baxter, always has plenty to say after you think he's all through. There's water in his well when the others is all dry!" "But how about the pews?" interrupted Mrs. Burbank. "I think Nancy's idea is splendid, and I want to see it carried out.
Please let me have the first cup of coffee hot." "Certainly, papa," said the hostess, making haste to fill his cup. "You don't at all feel apprehensive, do you?" "No," said the old man, with his teeth chattering. "I haven't had apprehensions for long back. Nothing but confidence." "Oh, pap!" put in Knox Van de Lear, "you'll be a preachin' when I'm a granddaddy. You never mean to die.
If one's sins are sure to find one out, there is little doubt but that Brother Nehemiah would be on the ground first. "Air you-uns a-settin' under the preachin' o' Brother Peter Vickers?" he demanded in a sepulchral voice. "Naw, naw," she was glad to reply.
"August and early September are the times when I've got to have a man on the place, and you say yourself, Captain Bangs, that there isn't another man to be had just now. If he goes " "Oh, he won't go. This is more of Hannah's talk; she's put him up to this leavin' business. Offer him another dollar a week, if you have to, and I'll do some preachin' to Hannah, myself."
"Well, well," sez Josiah, "le'ss git along unless you want to stay here and preach all day on the sidewalk." "But," sez I, "I'm not preachin', Josiah, I'm eppisodin'." "Well, there is a time for eppisodin' and a time for common sense, and le'ss git along." He acted real grumpy, I guess he'd thought more on me, if I had pretended I thought his life wuz worth double mine.
But the boatswain, taking in at a glance the critical state of affairs, and fully realising his own perilous position as the ring-leader in the mutiny, rallied his men by exclaiming "There now, belay all that, you Arnold; we wants none of your preachin', and, what's more, we won't have it.
And Josiah sez: "I believe it would be a good thing for you, Miss Meechim, to stay here right along; you could probable do considerable good here preachin' to the natives aginst marriage, they're pretty apt to marry too much if they're let alone, and you might curb 'em in some." She sez: "Robert is planning a trip to the Pali, and wants to know if you won't join us."
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